Fair Treatment

One thing all of us want is to be treated fairly. Monkeys want to be treated fairly too as is evident from the experiment depicted in the following video: [youtube]HK8Mp3OJYjk[/youtube] The above is actually a short portion of a TED talk given by Frans de Waal, an expert on primate…

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Surrogate Fail

At 7:15 am, I’m bouncing between Iceland-Hungary playing team handball and watching President Obama’s surrogate Robert Gibbs on Morning Joe trying to explain the Obama plan for getting the country back on track—and Gibbs is talking like somebody put a nickel in his back to get a print-out answer. Fail. The…

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City Manager meets the media on LTC

On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his hiring as Lowell City Manager, Bernie Lynch invited members of the media, mainstream and new, to appear with him for 90 minutes on Lowell Telecommunications last evening and discuss the issues of the day. Joining the manager from City Hall were…

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Busy Day for Bloggers

Today starts and ends with some of my fellow bloggers. At 6am on City Life on Lowell cable TV channel 8, a bunch of Lowell bloggers will gather to discuss the issues of the day with co-hosts George Anthes and John McDonough. That show will be replayed at 4pm on…

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A note to our iPad readers

Last week I installed an application on this blog that detects what type of device visitors are using to view this site. If it’s a mobile device such as a smart phone or a tablet such as an iPad, this new application reformats the content of the blog and sends…

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